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Sprint released a third-party study on Wednesday that pegged its $2.97-a-share offer for Clearwire favorable since it equates to 21 cents per MHz point of presence for the 2.5 GHz spectrum, which is higher than its valuation of 14 cents per MHz POP. In contrast on Tuesday, Clearwire shareholder Crest Financial issued findings that valued Sprint's offer at 11 cents per POP for the WiMAX spectrum, according to a study from former Federal Communications Commission member Harold Furchtgott-Roth and the Analysis Group.

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The TV, radio and newspaper cross-ownership ban, with its origins in the Nixon administration, is "outmoded and counterproductive and should be done away with or greatly changed," former Federal Communications Commission Chairman Richard Wiley said. "I inherited that rulemaking, and I thought it was the worst thing I ever inherited."

Meredith Attwell Baker, who served as a Republican member of the Federal Communications Commission from 2009 to 2011, will take over as president and CEO of CTIA-The Wireless Association® on June 2, the Washington, D.C.-based group announced on Wednesday. Baker, who will succeed Steve Largent in the post, most recently served as a senior vice president for government affairs at Comcast NBCUniversal. "We will recruit and keep the best and brightest experts in spectrum and wireless communications. CTIA must be the 'go to' organization on wireless issues for both industry and government" Baker said in a statement.

The pay-TV industry's push for legislation that would disrupt market-driven programming negotiations is merely a reaction to intensifying competition, writes Fred Campbell, former head of the Federal Communications Commission's Wireless Bureau. While some lawmakers have responded with bills that would give "special treatment" to pay-TV firms, "[e]nhancing the power of pay-TV providers over programming ... wouldn't benefit consumers. Congress should just say no," Campbell writes.

Tyrone Brown, an attorney and FCC commissioner during the Carter administration, has been named president of Media Access Project. He takes over the position from Andrew Jay Schwartzman, who will become the group's senior vice president and policy director.

A former FCC economist has urged the agency to put digital spectrum set aside for broadcasters to more effective use by reallocating it for wireless-broadband services. "Americans could be accessing more advanced wireless networks, developing more useful technologies and enjoying decidedly more productive opportunities in the economy were the TV band ... allocated to its highest valued use," said Thomas Hazlett in an FCC filing.